Easter cake with dried apricot zest and cottage cheese

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 6 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make Easter cake with dried apricot zest and cottage cheese? Let's prepare the necessary ingredients for the dough.

2. STEP 2

   

   Prepare the dough: add dry yeast and 1 teaspoon to warm milk (not higher than 40 degrees). l. Sahara. Then add 1 table. l. flour, stir until yeast dissolves

3. STEP 3

   

   Leave in a warm place for 30 minutes

4. STEP 4

   

   Separate the white of 1 egg from the yolk and reserve it for the glaze. Beat eggs with sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt.

5. STEP 5

   

   The butter must be melted in a water bath or in the microwave.

6. STEP 6

   

   Mix melted butter and beaten eggs

7. STEP 7

   

   After the specified time the dough rose

8. STEP 8

   

   Now combine the cottage cheese, dough and egg mass, mix well

9. STEP 9

   

   This is the mass we get

10. STEP 10

    

    Add flour gradually

11. STEP 11

    

    Now knead the dough well

12. STEP 12

    

    It turns out quite soft and sticky

13. STEP 13

    

    Leave in a warm place for 1 hour. Avoid drafts when rising yeast dough (many housewives place the dish with dough in a kitchen cabinet or a slightly heated and then turned off oven

14. STEP 14

    

    Let's prepare the dried apricots - they need to be washed

15. STEP 15

    

    Finely chop, you can grind in a blender

16. STEP 16

    

    After an hour the dough had risen well

17. STEP 17

    

    Add dried apricots and tangerine zest

18. STEP 18

    

    Knead

19. STEP 19

    

    Leave in a warm place for another 30 minutes

20. STEP 20

    

    After the specified time, place in molds greased with butter. This year I have a silicone mold with a beautiful engraving "XB"

21. STEP 21

    

    I got 4 eggs. You can use any round tin cans, large metal mugs, etc. as forms. If the mold is not silicone, its bottom and sides must be covered with baking parchment. Leave to rise for another 20-30 minutes

22. STEP 22

    

    When the cakes have risen, place them in the slightly open oven on low heat for 10 minutes so that the dough rises even better. Then close the oven, turn up the heat to 180 degrees and leave to bake for 35-45 minutes, depending on the size of the pans and the oven.

23. STEP 23

    

    For the next stage we will need the white of 1 egg, the remainder of the dough, powdered sugar, confectionery sprinkles and lemon juice

24. STEP 24

    

    Beat egg whites with powdered sugar, add lemon juice

25. STEP 25

    

    It turns out this shiny, dazzling white thick glaze

26. STEP 26

    

    After 40 minutes the cakes are baked; readiness can be checked with a wooden stick.

27. STEP 27

    

    Cover with a towel and leave to cool

28. STEP 28

    

    When the cakes have cooled, carefully remove them from the molds

29. STEP 29

    

    Grease with glaze

30. STEP 30

    

    Decorate with sprinkles

31. STEP 31

    

    It turned out so beautiful, and the aroma is simply magical - it’s a pity that it can’t be conveyed... The next day the glaze will harden and the cakes will be ready

32. STEP 32

    

    But here they are the next day! It can be seen that the glaze has hardened well.

33. STEP 33

    

    Help yourself and have a happy Easter!

Comments on the recipe

Nadin_Ka

15.08.2023

5

Girls, yesterday I prepared this recipe, I have a little advice. I excluded raisins or dried apricots from the recipe, and as a result, the cakes turned out quite bland. Maybe some people like it without much sweetness, I prefer it to taste like sweet buns. Next time I'll probably double the sugar. Of course, every dish will find its connoisseur, but for me the finished cake is a little bland, next time I will adjust the sugar.

Jacqueline

15.08.2023

4.5

Thank you very much for the recipe. Very good I liked it. The dough is amazing.

Kniazeva_S

15.08.2023

5

The texture turned out to be pleasant. The dough is airy and everything is very healthy.. But... It’s so bland. It turned out to be something like not very tasty bread. Of course, there’s no arguing about tastes. We did everything clearly according to the scale of grams. It’s a pity that they didn’t think to add it right away more sugar, so the fault is more likely ours.

DmitryMonastyrsky

15.08.2023

4.6

It turned out delicious. Thank you very much to the author!!! If your cake doesn’t rise while baking, it means you overdid it with flour. The dough should be terribly sticky and impossible to mix with your hands. But you are guaranteed an airy, delicate, aromatic cake

Karina Zakharova

15.08.2023

4.9

Thanks for the recipe! The cookies turned out very tasty! True, when cooling they fell a little, they need to be cooled on their sides.